Jose Ramon Fernandez

Jose Ramon Fernandez Alvarez (4 November 1923-) was Vice-President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba.

Biography
Jose Ramon Fernandez Alvarez was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba in 1923, and he graduated from the Cadet School of Cuba in 1947. From 1952 to 1956, he was involved with several groups that opposed Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, and he was imprisoned at the Presidio Modelo until the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Fernandez became director of militia training for the Cuban Army, and he led several battalions of militia and regular troops that crushed the 1961 Bay of Pigs counter-revolution. From 1978 to March 2012, he served as Vice-President of the Council of Ministers as a Communist Party of Cuba politician.